San Antonio College Library

Shooting Under Fire is the candid testimony and stunning photography of the men and women who go into battle armed only with a camera to show warfare as it is and where it is. On September 11, 2001, America and the world learned in a devastating attack that warfare can just as easily occur on a beautiful day in the middle of one of the world's greatest cities as in a desert thousands of miles away. The world was made aware of this because photographers...

In the late-19th century, with the American Civil War in full swing, millions of Americans relied on the written word, illustrations and engravings for news about the conflict; until the groundbreaking work of New York photographer Mathew Brady, brought the harsh realities of war home for the very first time.

This set of essays by twenty-seven historians of the Civil War describes a wide array of the war's photographs, examining them in unfamiliar ways.